Have you ever flipped through the pages of a high-end fashion magazine and wondered how beautiful the women and men on these pages look? How good their shoes are, how flawless their skin is, how absolutely proportionate bodies they have been blessed with? And then, with a sigh keep those magazines aside and look at yourselves, feeling a lot less happier than you felt before getting your hands on the magazine. Then perhaps, you are not alone. A lot of people have felt their confidence dip after seeing the near-perfect figures that feature on magazines.

This video could put things into perspective for people. The clip shows two popular fashion magazines, which have 426 pages and 244 pages each. After tearing away the advertisements and paid content pages, it shocking to see 364 pages out of 426 and 158 out of 244 pages removed! Yes, it seems most of these magazines are more like product catalogs. They are the glossy sheets that tell you are not good enough and that something’s wrong with you. These brands feed on people’s insecurities, thus making them feel incompetent.

Not just us, popular culture shows how even celebrities, who are admired and looked up to for being beautiful, are subjected to measures like Photoshop, because how else can they make the masses believe that if their favourite celebrities look like this, they should totally aspire to be like them too, or rather their photoshopped versions.

This creation of negative body images throughout these years have resulted in many lifestyle disorders in women such as anorexia and bulimia etc.

The video goes into depth to give an insight about the way these brands and magazines manipulate their readers.